Chapter 1: The Past Returns

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Dear Harry the letter began

Since you are reading this letter I can only assume that you haven't torn it up for not knowing who sent it. And for that I'm glad.

First I would like to say how sorry I am for what happened to Sirius. He was a good friend of mine when we were younger.

If you are trying to guess who sent this letter let me introduce myself, my name is Chi-Chi Son, your Godmother.

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"WHAT?" he screamed in his mind

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Now don't go having a heart attack kid, I can explain. I'm a Muggle born, from China. I went to Hogwarts with your parents. Your mother and I were close friends, if you look inside the envelope you should find a photo of the two of us, my husband, my own son Gohan, and James and Lily.

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Just as the letter said Harry found a picture of himself, his parents, a woman in what he guessed was some Asian style of dress, with black hair and eyes, next to the woman was a man with spiky black hair and black eyes, wearing an orange fighting gi, and sitting on the blanket in front of the parents, was Harry himself, trying to hit another infant over the head with a stuffed dog that reminded Harry of Padfoot.

"What the hell is going on?" Harry thought as he continued to read the letter.

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I know you're probably wondering where I have been since James and Lily passed away, and why you didn't live with me instead of Lily's sister, but I swear on my life, my soul and my honour that I tried to get custody of you, I promised Lily I would take care of you if something happened, but Dumbledore wouldn't let the Ministry give me custody of you, I'm sorry.

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"Fucking Dumbledore again" Harry growled as he read on.

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I know that's no excuse for things but I want to try and make things up to you. I made the mistake once when I failed to get past Dumbledore, but I'd like very much to be a part of your life again. If you want it that is.

If you don't trust me then contact Remus Lupin, show him the picture, take all the time you need and I'll be there when you're ready.

Regards, Chi-Chi Son

P.S. When you need to contact me the letter should be addressed 439 Mountain Area. Your owl with know how to find me.

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Harry re read the letter twice before he went to his desk and began to write a letter in a fast script.

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Moony

Swings in the park Noon tomorrow

BE THERE

H.P.

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Quickly folding the letter Harry called Hedwig to him and said "Take this to Remus, Hed. Don't wait for a reply just get there and back as fast as your wings can carry you"

The snowy owl hooted and took the letter before flying out into the night sky, leaving Harry to his thoughts.

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Harry had been back in Surry for two weeks, to weeks in which he had tried to sort out his thoughts, the prophecy, Sirius' death, his relationship with Dumbledore, or lack thereof. Things had changed a lot, especially since he hadn't got a single letter from Ron or Hermione, he had gotten plenty of letters from members of the DA and Remus, a few from Tonks too, and he had kept up his three daily checkup letters to the order.

Things had also changed at home, Vernon had gotten a big promotion and was out of the house more, usually the blimp that despised calling himself uncle to Harry Potter was gone by dawn, Harry's relationship with his cousin Dudley had changed too. His encounter with the Dementors had changed Harry's portly cousin, he had taken more to his studies and his boxing training, Harry had taken to helping Dudley with his boxing training, it had helped them both, Dudley had lost a lot of weight while at Smeltings, and Harry was getting into a good condition too, two weeks of jogging three times a day, lifting weights and exercise had given Harry the beginnings of muscles and a light brown tan.

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Harry re read the letter one more time and smiled at the photo in his lap before turning off the lamp again and rolling over onto his side to sleep.

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The next morning Harry sat at his breakfast while glancing over his copy of the Daily Prophet, on Remus' recommendation he had restored his subscription on a temporary basis, the paper had apparently cleaned up its act, and was actually reporting something useful

"Bugger" he muttered as he read the sports column

"What's wrong?" Dudley asked

"I just lost a total of a hundred and fifty galleons" Harry said "The idiot Auror I bet on in the Duelling Tournament in Dublin on Friday got the crap beat out of him in the semi-final, Russia lost the chess tournament me and Dean Thomas bet on, and the Shanghai Serpents lost their match against the Tokyo Titans in the Asian Quidditch league, which cost me another seventy five Galleons with the bloody Goblins"

"That's gotta hurt" Dudley winced "150 is a lot of money"

"Somewhere in the region of four hundred and fifty quid I think" Harry grumbled "But still only a drop in the well of the trust vault"

"Losing money is losing money" Dudley said

"Yeah" Harry said as he looked towards Petunia and asked "Did you know I had a Godmother, Aunt Petunia?"

"Godmother?" Petunia asked as she furrowed her brow in thought before saying "I think Lily mentioned something when she was pregnant about asking one of her roommates to be your Godmother…some witch from China…Chi something"

"Chi-Chi Son" Harry said

"I don't think her name was Son then" Petunia said "Maybe her married name. Why do you ask?"

"A letter from her dropped onto my head last night" Harry said "I'm not sure how though since I closed the window, but she said she wants to meet me"

"What are you gonna do?" Dudley asked

"Before last night I didn't know she existed" Harry said "So I sent a letter to Remus, he's meeting me at the swings at noon" then under his breath Harry muttered "If he knows what's good for him he will"

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At noon Harry was standing against the support of the swing with the photo tucked under his arm and his wand in the fold of his arms.

When he heard the Appration crack to his left Harry glanced that way but saw nothing as he said "What form does my Patronus take?"

"Prongs" a voice said "Otherwise known as James William Potter"

"Where is the Order located?" Harry asked

"Number 12 Grimmauld Place" the voice replied again before a head appeared in mid-air, followed by the body of Remus Lupin "Good to see you cub"

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Harry's only reply was to shove the photo and the letter at Remus' chest and growl "Explain"

Remus stared at the picture for a moment before he asked "Where did you get this?"

"It landed on my head last night" Harry hissed "Now tell me why it has taken Sirius dying for me to find out she EXISTED"

"I thought you already knew" Remus said

"Do you think that if I knew I had a Godmother I would still be staying at this shit hole?" Harry growled "Now is the letter accurate?"

Remus paused to read the letter before he said "It's accurate"

"Then you won't have a problem with me meeting her" Harry growled "I don't give a shit about the order but you're another matter"

"I'm sorry" Remus said as he bowed his head

"Forget it" Harry sighed "Who else knows she exists?"

Remus thought for a moment before he counted off "The Weasley's, Dumbledore, Frank and Alice Longbottom knew her and Snape, as I recall, she's the reason he has such a crooked nose"

"Why?" Harry asked

"She broke it several times during our fourth and fifth year when he called her a Mudblood and made fun of her for the pictures she had of her future husband Goku" Remus laughed

"Well I'll write a letter today" Harry said "But I don't think Hedwig would be able to make a trip all the way to China"

"Use Phoenix mail" Remus said "If you write a letter to their office in London you can rent a Blue Phoenix for about five Galleons a month"

"Cool" Harry said "I'll do that tonight, is the will reading still scheduled for next week?"

"Yeah" Remus replied "I'll meet you on the Day Bus at 10:30 on Monday morning"

"OK" Harry nodded as he walked home.

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That night as the sun was setting Harry sent a letter to Blue Phoenix Mail requesting the rental of a mail phoenix, and sent an authorization to charge the monthly bill to his vault, and sometime around midnight there was a flash of blue flame and a frost blue phoenix appeared on Harry's desk with a letter in its beak.

After stroking the phoenix's plumage Harry took the letter.

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Dear Mr Potter

Thank you for your letter and congratulations on your choice to rent one of our blue phoenixes. The phoenix who has delivered your letter is called Silver. The whistle in this letter will call him to you at any time, in case of emergency Silver has been trained to transport not only mail, but people as well, but his range on masses over 200 kilos is limited to 2,000 miles, and he should only be used for this purpose in an emergency.

Thank You

Blue Phoenix Mail

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Harry smiled as he reached onto his desk and withdrew the letter he had written to Chi-Chi and placed in Silver's beak and said "This goes to Chi-Chi Son on the 439 Mountain Area in China"

Silver chirped brightly before he vanished again.

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Around the same time, Chi-Chi was standing over the stove cooking lunch while Gohan was outside running through a few basic katas with Goten, it was after some heavy argument from Piccolo, Krillen and Vegeta that Chi-Chi finally agreed to let Gohan continue his training.

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"Goku left the responsibility of protecting this world from threats to his son" Piccolo had said "You can't let him ignore it in favour of turning him into a total brain box"

"You've had Gohan crammed in front of a book since he could walk Chi" Krillen said "Maybe it's time you let him slow down a bit. Let him decide what he wants to do with his life before you start planning his college education"

"The brat is a Saiyan" Vegeta said "The most powerful to walk the universe in three thousand years, half human or not his instincts will not allow him to ignore his strength, and if he tries it will cause more damage than you know"

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In the end she had caved and let Gohan continue his training, on the condition that he at least do some studying every day.

She was just finishing lunch when Gohan said "Hey mom there's a bird in here with a letter"

"Bring it out here dear" Chi-Chi called "I'm almost done"

A few moments later Gohan appeared with a frost blue phoenix on his arm.

"Why is that bird blue?" Goten asked

"It's a blue Phoenix" Chi-Chi said "They're a species of phoenix that is bred in various parts of the Wizarding world for long distance mail communication"

"Who's it from?" Gohan asked as he set the phoenix down

"Not sure" Chi-Chi said "Watch the lunch for me while I find out" then she took the letter from the phoenix and opened it.

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Dear Chi-Chi it began

Thank you for the letter. It's nice to know I still have at least one independent link to my parents from that manipulative bastard Dumbledore.

In response to your attempts to get custody of me, I don't blame you, Dumbledore has had a habit of interfering in things that are not his concern.

I talked to Remus this morning, is it true that you broke Professor Snivilus Snape's nose? I'd pay money to see that any day, the greasy bastard needs taken down a peg.

Anyway, I would in fact like to meet you some time, and thanks to the blue Phoenix who delivered the letter, Silver, I can do it without the Order of the Roasted Chicken finding out.

Aside from jogging a few times during the day and doing some exercise I'm free anytime up to this Sunday, if you want to meet, send a reply back with Silver.

Regards,

Harry Potter

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"You broke a teacher's nose?" Gohan gaped

"Snape wasn't a teacher then" Chi-Chi laughed "He was just another student like me, who thought he was better than everybody else, he made fun of the pictures I had of your dad so over the course of two years I broke his nose eleven times, I don't think Madame Pompfry ever did get it straight that last time, especially since I didn't just punch him the last time, I head-butted him"

"Oh Kami that had to have hurt" Gohan groaned

"It probably did" Chi-Chi grinned evilly "Snape was one of the people who constantly ended up in the Hospital wing after an encounter with me"

"You beat people up?" Goten asked

"Just the Slytherin's who made fun of the Muggleborns" Chi-Chi shrugged "The Junior Deatheaters as James called them"

"So what're you gonna do?" Goten asked

"I'm going to meet my Godson" Chi-Chi said "But first it's time for lunch"

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Roughly three hours after Harry sent Silver with the letter, he returned with another.

"Thanks Silver" Harry said as he stroked the phoenix's feathers "I'll call if I need anything" then the phoenix vanished.

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Harry the letter began

Yes I did in fact break Snape's nose, eleven times in two years, I don't take kindly to people insulting the man I intend to marry, but what did you mean Professor Snape? Don't tell me that lemon drop sucking loony made Snape a teacher.

Anyway, I'm free most of the time, I'm pretty certain my two boys can keep from blowing the house up for a while. So how about I meet you for lunch this Friday? A place of your choice.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Chi-Chi

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Harry smiled as he began to write another letter. He had decided that morning that rather than waste what parchment he had, he would use a pen and spiral notepad he had swiped from the kitchen.

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Chi-Chi

Thanks for the letter, and I'm afraid that Snape has become a teacher, the bastard teaches Potions, and seems to delight in picking up his old vendetta with my dad in me.

As to meeting you, how about we meet at the Leaky Cauldron? We can have a snack at the Ice Cream Parlour and then maybe you can help me do some shopping in Muggle London. How does 11:30 on Friday sound? I'm not sure what the time difference is between London and where you live so I'd rather not weigh you down with Jet Lag.

See you soon

Harry

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Harry smiled as he folded the letter and put away to have Silver deliver in the morning. Then he rolled over onto his side and went to sleep.

"I'll be damned" Harry said over the frying pan he was working at the next morning

"What?" Dudley asked

"The statistically worst Quidditch team in the British league signed a new Seeker yesterday. Victor Krum"

"Isn't he that big Bulgarian you told me about?" Dudley asked "The one who represented the Eastern European school at the big tournament?"

"Yeah" Harry replied "And Ron hates his guts, self-centered idiot thinks Krum is out to steal Hermione from him"

"I thought you said they weren't together" Petunia said

"They aren't" Harry shrugged "But Ronald Billius Weasley, is an idiot, always has been, all he cares about is himself and money. Thinks it'll make him better than everybody else" Harry sighed as he said "He may be a Prefect, and he may want to be Head Boy and get a good job, but what Ron doesn't see is that he cant have everything handed to him on a plate, he'll have to work for what he wants in life just like Bill and Charlie"

"Ron has five brothers right?" Dudley asked as Harry gave him his pancakes

"Yeah" Harry replied "Bill, Charlie, Percy, and the twins Fred and George"

"What do they do for a living?" Dudley asked

"Bill's a Curse Breaker for Gringotts" Harry said "Mostly works in Egypt and places where old civilizations used to thrive, Charlie works at the Dragon Reserve in Romania, Percy works at the Ministry, I think he's Fudge's assistant, and the twins left Hogwarts before they completed their final exams, the NEWTs, but they run a successful Joke Shop in London. I gave them the capital to start it last June and they're thriving, they'll probably be making more money that Bill, and Charlie combined in a few years"

"That's good I take it?" Petunia asked

"Breaking the curses placed by ancient wizards and handling Dragons are both dangerous jobs" Harry said "So yeah the money would be good"

"What do you wanna do when you graduate?" Dudley asked

"Well" Harry said "I had thought about becoming a wizard cop, otherwise known as an Auror, but I don't think I could work for the current Minister"

"Why?" Petunia asked

"Cause he's a prick" Harry said before he began to eat.

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A/N: Not much, in the way of author notes. Stick around for the next chapter, when Harry reunites with his godmother ChiChi and the Potter Will is read.